Relates to succession rights for tenants of New York city housing authority properties, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  8311--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 30, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
   Community  Development  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to succession rights
   for New York city housing authority properties
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
 402-h to read as follows:
   § 402-H. SUCCESSION RIGHTS. 1. THE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES OF THE  NEW
 YORK  CITY  HOUSING  AUTHORITY  INCLUDE,  AND SHALL CONTINUE TO INCLUDE,
 POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ALLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO CLAIM SUCCESSION  RIGHTS
 TO PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS IN PROPERTIES OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE NEW YORK
 CITY  HOUSING  AUTHORITY  UPON  THE  PERMANENT DEPARTURE OR DEATH OF THE
 TENANT OF RECORD FROM THE UNIT.
   2. THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY SHALL ESTABLISH  WRITTEN  POLI-
 CIES  AND PROCEDURES FOR ASSERTING SUCCESSION RIGHTS CONSISTENT WITH THE
 REQUIREMENTS OF APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAWS,  REGULATIONS,
 AND  GUIDANCE, AS THEY MAY CHANGE FROM TIME TO TIME.  SUCH WRITTEN POLI-
 CIES AND PROCEDURES SHALL ALSO BE CONSISTENT  WITH  THE  NEW  YORK  CITY
 HOUSING  AUTHORITY'S  OCCUPANCY  STANDARDS. SUCH POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
 SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   (A) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR LEASE SUCCESSION;
   (B) RELOCATION REQUIREMENTS, IF ANY, ARISING OUT OF LEASE SUCCESSION;
   (C) THE REQUIREMENT TO PAY USE AND OCCUPANCY DURING  THE  PENDENCY  OF
 SUCCESSION RIGHTS PROCEEDINGS; AND
   (D)  THE  RIGHT  TO  AN  ADMINISTRATIVE GRIEVANCE OF THE NEW YORK CITY
 HOUSING AUTHORITY'S DENIAL OF SUCCESSION RIGHTS, EXCEPT  AS  LIMITED  BY
 THE  NEW  YORK  CITY  HOUSING AUTHORITY'S SUCCESSION RIGHTS POLICIES AND
 PROCEDURES.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   3. THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY SHALL ISSUE NOTICE  IN  WRITING
 OF  SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES TO ITS SUCCESSION RIGHTS POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
 AT LEAST THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO  IMPLEMENTING  THOSE  CHANGES,  AND  SHALL
 AFFORD  AN  OPPORTUNITY  TO PROVIDE WRITTEN COMMENTS WITH RESPECT TO THE
 PROPOSED  CHANGES.  THE  NEW  YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY SHALL CONSIDER
 WRITTEN COMMENTS PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROPOSED CHANGES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.